核物理中心职工20人，中科院院士2人，杰出青年基金获得者4人，优青、青年拔尖人才、海外优青等多人。在培研究生约60人， 博士后9名。是一支勇于创新，老、中、青相结合的结构合理的研究队伍。中心主任马余刚院士。
核物理中心承担了基金委重大项目、创新群体项目、重点项目、科技部重点研发项目、科学院先导专项等部委的重要科研项目。中心实验室面积达2000平方米，建有探测器研发的基本仪器设备，为探测器模拟、实验数据分析和理论计算的发展建有高性能计算平台，计算节点3000核、存储2PB。
核在反物质探测物理中心团队参加了多个国际合作实验和国内大科学装置的研发工作，取得丰硕的物理成果。参与欧洲核子研究中心的ALICE国际合作实验、美国布鲁克海文实验室的RHIC-STAR和sPHINEX国际合作实验、俄罗斯NICA实验计划，同时基于国内兰州重离子冷却储存环和上海光源伽马射线站开展了核物理相关研究工作。方面，先后首次观测到反超氚核、反氦4粒子，首次测量了反质子-反质子相互作用，精确测量正-反超氚核质量；在实验中首次观测到了反应末态粒子的整体自旋排列现象；开展手征反常效应的实验与理论，在手征信号和背景分析方面进行了系统性研究。上述研究成果，先后两次入选“中国科学十大进展”，获得国家自然科学奖二等奖，相关论文发表在Science、Nature、Nature Physics、Physical Review Letters、 Physics Reports等学术期刊。
The Shanghai Nuclear Physics Center has a team of 20 employees, including 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4 recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and numerous other honors such as Excellent Young Scientist Fund, Youth Top-notch Talent Support Plan, and Overseas Excellent Young Scientist Fund. There are approximately 60 graduate students and 9 postdoctoral researchers being trained here. This team has a well-balanced structure, bringing together experienced, mid-career, and early-career researchers with a strong commitment to innovation. The director of the center is Academician Prof. Yu-Gang Ma.
The Shanghai Nuclear Physics Center undertakes significant research projects funded by various ministries and commissions, including key projects and innovation center/group projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, key R&D projects from the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Strategic Priority Research Program. The center’s 2,000-square-meter laboratory is well-equipped with essential instrumentation for detector development. A high-performance computing platform with 3,000 computing nodes and 2PB of storage supports detector simulation, experimental data analysis, and theoretical calculations.
The team of the Shanghai Nuclear Physics Center has participated in numerous international cooperative experiments and has been actively involved in the R&D of large-scale domestic scientific facilities, producing significant physics results. They contribute to international collaborations such as ALICE at CERN, RHIC-STAR and sPHINEX at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States, and the NICA experimental program in Russia. Domestically, the center conducts nuclear physics research using facilities like the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou and the Gamma-ray Station at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility. In antimatter detection, the team has achieved groundbreaking results, including the first observations of anti-hypertriton and anti-helium-4 particles, the first measurements of antiproton-antiproton interactions, and precision mass measurements of hypertriton and anti-hypertriton. The collective spin alignment of final-state particles has also been observed for the first time. Furthermore, significant advances in chiral anomaly experiments and theory have been made, with comprehensive studies of chiral signals and background analysis. This research has twice been selected among the "Top Ten Advances in Chinese Science" and has received the National Natural Science Award (second level). Related findings have been published in leading journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, and Physics Reports.
